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Apr 29, 2011

Student-Faculty Team Works to Boost Economy of Honduran Village through Cocoa Plantation

Perhaps you’ve read the book or seen the movie Like Water for Chocolate. In one small village in Honduras, it’s just the opposite: Villagers are learning…

Feb 11, 2011

Students Are Helping Hurricane-Devastated Neighborhood in New Orleans Rebuild as a Green Community

Professor David Veshosky is driving a rented red Borrego SUV through the empty streets of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward on a cloudy day in early January…

Jan 3, 2011

Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

A feature-length article in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the multidisciplinary approach Lafayette’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning…

Oct 15, 2010

Students Bring Honduran Coffee Project Full Circle

For the past several years, members of the College’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) have collaborated with rural villages in…

Jul 26, 2010

Prof. Gladstone Hutchinson Named Director-General of Jamaica’s Planning Institute

The Government of Jamaica is calling upon Gladstone Fluney Hutchinson, associate professor of economics at Lafayette and founding director of the College’s…

Jul 7, 2010

Student-Faculty Team Promotes Economic Development in Honduras

An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty has recently returned to campus after spending a week working on an economic development project in the…

Jun 18, 2010

Student Work in Honduras Featured on Channel 69 News

The Lafayette student-run water and economic infrastructure projects in the Yoro region of Honduras have been featured in three segments over the last…

Jun 11, 2010

Students Honored by President Clinton at National Conference

A team of students working to help rebuild New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward was recognized by President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University…

May 19, 2010

Lafayette Students Featured in Two Segments on WFMZ’s Edicion en Espanol

Students provide commentary in Spanish on their economic and environmental work in Honduras Students involved with Lafayette’s chapter of Engineers Without…

May 17, 2010

Students and Faculty Work to Convert Abandoned New Orleans School into Community Arts Center

A group of Lafayette students and faculty spent their spring break in New Orleans working with artists and community leaders in the Lower Ninth Ward to…

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